Another good book off my TBR List.
Animal Life by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir.
An interesting book with strong environmental and philosophy of life themes. I was intrigued and interested in the story. But if you like action and conflict in your stories this isn't the book for you.
Available from cloudLibrary as a digital audiobook and as an ebook on Libby. The cloudLibrary is available to Greenburgh Library card holders.
Next up is My Father's House by Joseph O'Connor. I borrowed the digital audiobook from cloudLibrary. Libby has it as an eBook. The Washington Post recommended the audiobook.
Genie
March 13, 2023
Animal Life by Call Number: New Fiction OlafsdottirISBN: 9780802160164Publication Date: 2022-12-06A dazzling novel about a family of midwives set in the run-up to Christmas in Iceland In the days leading up to Christmas, Dómhildur delivers her 1,922nd baby. Beginnings and endings are her family trade; she comes from a long line of midwives on her mother's side and a long line of undertakers on her father's. She even lives in the apartment that she inherited from her grandaunt, a midwife with a unique reputation for her unconventional methods. As a terrible storm races towards Reykjavik, Dómhildur discovers decades worth of letters and manuscripts hidden amongst her grandaunt's clutter. Fielding calls from her anxious meteorologist sister and visits from her curious new neighbour, Dómhildur escapes into her grandaunt's archive and discovers strange and beautiful reflections on birth, death and human nature. With her singular warmth and humor, in Animal Life Ólafsdóttir gives us a beguiling novel that comes direct from the depths of an Icelandic winter, full of hope for spring.
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